It’s been a long, dreary, and difficult day today. Out where I am, we’ve had massive storms hitting us for the last week, and as a result, the dog park outside my window is basically a mud-pool with its own slip-‘n’-slide. On top of that, I had long meetings and a shit-ton of work to do – fortunately I managed to do most of it. But the result of all of that was that I had to spend all of yesterday, and much of today, tooling around in PowerPoint.
Let me repeat that, for those of you in the cheap seats:
I HAD TO SPEND HOURS OF MY LIFE WORKING WITH POWERPOINT.
If I could get away with justifiably killing just ONE person (I mean, other than Karl Marx, obviously), it would be the asshole who invented PowerPoint. THAT is how evil this abomination really is.
At any rate, that is why this edition of the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer is so late, and so half-arsed, at least where the linkage is concerned. But we’ve still got a pretty solid assortment to keep you busy.
This week’s theme was suggested by our good friend in Israel, The Male Brain, who notes that this week marks the birthday of a sadly deceased legend of the screen. Take it away, bro:
Alan Rickman
This Monday is a tribute to a great actor: Alan Rickman. Our host did commit to it last year.
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born in the Acton area of London on 21 February 1946, the son of Welsh housewife Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett) and English factory worker, house painter and decorator, and former Second World War aircraft fitter Bernard William Rickman. Rickman was born with a tight jaw, which resulted in the deep, languid tone of voice for which he would become famous. When he was eight years old, his father died of lung cancer, leaving his mother to raise him and his three siblings mostly alone. According to biographer Maureen Paton, the family was « rehoused by the council and moved to an Acton estate to the west of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, where his mother struggled to bring up four children on her own by working for the Post Office ». She married again in 1960, but divorced Rickman’s stepfather after three years.
As a child, he excelled at calligraphy and watercolour painting. Rickman attended West Acton First School followed by Derwentwater Primary School in Acton, and then Latymer Upper School in London through the Direct Grant system, where he became involved in drama. After leaving Latymer with science A Levels, he attended Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1965 to 1968 and then the Royal College of Art from 1968 to 1970. His training allowed him to work as a graphic designer for the Royal College of Art’s in-house magazine, ARK, and the Notting Hill Herald, which he considered a more stable occupation than acting. After graduation, Rickman and several friends opened a graphic design studio called Graphiti, but after three years of successful business, he decided that he was going to pursue acting professionally. He wrote to request an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), which he attended from 1972 until 1974. While there, he supported himself by working as a dresser for Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Ralph Richardson.
After graduating from RADA, Rickman worked extensively with British repertory and experimental theatre groups in productions including Chekhov’s The Seagull and Snoo Wilson’s The Grass Widow at the Royal Court Theatre, and appeared three times at the Edinburgh International Festival. In 1978, he performed with the Court Drama Group, gaining roles in Romeo and Juliet and A View from the Bridge, among other plays. While working with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), he was cast in As You Like It. His breakthrough role was in The Barchester Chronicles (1982), the BBC’s adaptation of Trollope’s first two Barchester novels, as the Reverend Obadiah Slope.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Alan Rickman is the only actor to make it onto this Greatest Villains list twice—he does bad deeds with such gusto. Legend has it he kept refusing the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham until it was agreed he could do whatever he liked with it—which, to Kevin Costner’s rumoured chagrin, included stealing the whole damn show. Every sneer, every eye-roll, every flourish of splenetic exasperation is a joy to behold. Whether he’s cancelling Christmas or cutting your heart out with a spoon, Rickman’s crowd-pleasing pantomime villainy is downright heroic.
—Empire on Rickman, ranking his portrayals of the Sheriff of Nottingham (number 14) and Hans Gruber (number 4) on their list of the greatest villains.
Rickman was given the male lead, the Vicomte de Valmont, in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Howard Davies. After the RSC production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987, Rickman received both a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance.
In 1988, Rickman played the antagonist Hans Gruber in the action thriller Die Hard in what was his first feature film. Starring opposite Bruce Willis, Rickman’s portrayal earned him critical acclaim and a spot on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains list as the 46th best villain in film history. Rickman later revealed he almost did not take the role as he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make.
Rickman’s performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)—which garnered him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role—also earned him praise as one of the best actors to portray a villain in films.
He starred in romantic leads including Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991) and Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995); played the Australian Elliot Marston opposite Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under (1990), and starred as the « mad monk » Rasputin in the HBO biopic Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.
Rickman directed The Winter Guest at London’s Almeida Theatre in 1995 and the film version of the same play, released in 1997, starring Emma Thompson and her real-life mother Phyllida Law. Rickman’s stage performances in the 1990s include Antony and Cleopatra in 1998 as Mark Antony, with Helen Mirren as Cleopatra, in the Royal National Theatre’s production at the Olivier Theatre in London, which ran from October to December 1998. Rickman appeared in Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000), a Christmas special with Victoria Wood, playing an aged colonel in the battle of Waterloo who is forced to break off his engagement to Honeysuckle Weeks’ character.
Rickman took issue with being typecast as a villain, even though he was known for playing « unsympathetic characters ». During his career, Rickman played comedic roles, including as Sir Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus in the cult classic sci-fi parody Galaxy Quest (1999) with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell, and Tony Shalhoub. He also played the angel Metatron, the voice of God, in Kevin Smith’s Dogma (also 1999).
His portrayal of Severus Snape, the potions master in the Harry Potter series (2001–2011), was dark, but the character’s motivations were not clear early on.
In 2002, Rickman performed onstage in Noël Coward’s romantic comedy Private Lives. After its successful run at the Albery Theatre in the West End it transferred to Broadway and ended in September 2002; he reunited with his Les Liaisons Dangereuses co-star Lindsay Duncan and director Howard Davies in the Olivier and Tony Award-winning production.
In 2003, Rickman starred in the ensemble Christmas-themed romantic comedy Love Actually (2003) as Emma Thompson’s character’s foolish husband Harry. The film was written by Richard Curtis and has been called « a modern classic » by The Independent, In 2005, he lent his voice to Marvin the Paranoid Android in science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) starring Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, and Zooey Deschanel. In 2007 he played the egotistical, Nobel Prize-winning father in the black comedy Nobel Son (2007).
Rickman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his work as Dr. Alfred Blalock in HBO’s Something the Lord Made (2004). He also starred in the independent film Snow Cake (2006) with Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (also 2006), directed by Tom Tykwer. He appeared as Judge Turpin in the critically acclaimed Tim Burton film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) alongside Johnny Depp, and his Harry Potter co-stars Helena Bonham Carter and Timothy Spall.
In 2009, Rickman was awarded the James Joyce Award by University College Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society. In October and November 2010, Rickman starred in the eponymous role in Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin alongside Lindsay Duncan and Fiona Shaw. The Irish Independent called Rickman’s performance breathtaking.
In 2010, he starred in the BBC television production The Song of Lunch alongside Emma Thompson. That same year he provided the voice of Absolem the Caterpillar in Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland (2010).
Rickman again appeared as Severus Snape in the final instalment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). Throughout the series, his portrayal of Snape garnered widespread critical acclaim. Media coverage characterised Rickman’s performance as worthy of nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His last appearance as Snape saw him receive award nominations in 2011, including at the Saturn Awards and the Scream Awards.
In 2014, he directed and starred in the costume drama film, A Little Chaos starring Kate Winslet, Jennifer Ehle, and Stanley Tucci. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film received mixed reviews with its critics consensus reading .The following year he starred in Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky (2015) starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, and Barkhad Abdi. This would be Rickman’s final onscreen performance. The film debuted at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival to great acclaim, receiving a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95%, based on 175 critics.
Legacy and Reputation
Rickman was chosen by Empire as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (No. 34) in 1995 and ranked No. 59 in Empire’s « The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time » list in October 1997. In 2009 and 2010, he was ranked once again as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars by Empire, both times placing No. 8 out of the 50 actors chosen. He was elected to the council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1993; he was subsequently RADA’s vice-chairman and a member of its artistic advisory and training committees and development board.
Rickman was voted No. 19 in Empire magazine’s Greatest Living Movie Stars over the age of 50 and was twice nominated for Broadway’s Tony Award as Best Actor (Play); in 1987 for Les Liaisons Dangereuses and in 2002 for a revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. The Guardian named Rickman as an « honourable mention » in a list of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found « the perfect [male] voice » to be a combination of Rickman’s and Jeremy Irons’ voices based on a sample of 50 voices. The BBC states that Rickman’s « sonorous, languid voice was his calling card—making even throwaway lines of dialogue sound thought-out and authoritative. » In their vocal range exercises in studying for a GCSE in drama, he was singled out by the BBC for his « excellent diction and articulation ».
Rickman featured in several musical works, including a song composed by Adam Leonard entitled « Not Alan Rickman ». Credited as ‘A Strolling Player’ in the sleeve notes, the actor played a « Master of Ceremonies » part, announcing the various instruments at the end of the first part of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells II (1992) on the track « The Bell ». Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the album When Love Speaks (2002), and also featured prominently in a music video by Scottish rock band Texas entitled « In Demand », which premiered on MTV Europe in August 2000.
Personal life
In 1965, at age 19, Rickman met 18-year-old Rima Horton, who became his girlfriend and would later be a Labour Party councillor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council (1986–2006) and an economics lecturer at Kingston University. In 2015, Rickman confirmed that they had married in a private ceremony in New York City in 2012. They lived together from 1977 until Rickman’s death. The two had no children.
Rickman was an active patron of the research foundation Saving Faces and honorary president of the International Performers’ Aid Trust, a charity that works to fight poverty amongst performing artists all over the world. When discussing politics, Rickman said he « was born a card-carrying member of the Labour Party. » His last recorded work prior to his death was for a short video to help Oxford University students raise funds and awareness of the refugee crisis for Save the Children and Refugee Council.
Rickman was the godfather of fellow actor Tom Burke. Rickman’s brother Michael is a Conservative Party district councillor in Leicestershire. [That’s “Lestershure” for you Damn Yankees]
Illness and Death
In August 2015, Rickman suffered a minor stroke, which led to the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. He revealed that he had terminal cancer to only his closest confidants. On 14 January 2016, he died in London at the age of 69. His remains were cremated on 3 February 2016 in the West London Crematorium in Kensal Green. His ashes were given to his widow. His final two films, Eye in the Sky and Alice Through the Looking Glass, were dedicated to his memory, as was The Limehouse Golem, which would have been his next project.
Legacy
Soon after his death his fans created a memorial underneath the « Platform 9¾ » sign at London King’s Cross railway station. His death has been compared to that of David Bowie, a fellow English cultural figure who died at the same age as Rickman four days earlier, also from cancer, and also kept private from the public.
Here are
BY GRABTHAR’S HAMMER, BY THE SONS OF WARVAN, YOU SHALL BE AVENGED!!!
Yep. It was awesome.
And here are some pics to go along with it all:
That is scary
This year has been full of acts of severe bastardy already, but among the worst (so far) has got to be the death of the great humourist, columnist, and acerbic observer of the human condition, P. J. O’Rourke:
LRFotS Robert W has your best possible Floriduh Woman story of the week:
ORLANDO, Fla. – An intoxicated passenger who was barred from boarding an airplane at Orlando International Airport rode away from the gate on a motorized suitcase as a police officer on a bicycle followed behind her, court records and newly released video shows.
“We’re going to have a bike pursuing a suitcase in a minute,” an Orlando police officer said as he tried to catch up to the passenger, who was driving a scooter-like electric vehicle mounted to her luggage.
Chelsea Alston, 32, was later accused of battering the police officer and causing more than $1,000 in damage to his patrol car, court records allege. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison for each offense.
Alston is among several dozen passengers who have been arrested at Orlando International Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic for unruly or violent behavior, a News 6 investigation found.
Alston, who has entered a plea of not guilty, was travelling from Orlando to New York in April when a Southwest Airlines gate agent refused to let her board because she appeared to be intoxicated, officials said.
“I don’t want no beef. I’m just trying to go home and enjoy myself,” said Alston, who claimed to have had two drinks before her flight.
Orlando police Officer Andrew Mamone informed Alston that her glassy eyes, inability to stand straight and the odor of alcohol on her were reasons for the airline to suspect she was too intoxicated to fly, video from the incident shows.
Having been to Orlando before, I can WELL believe this story. Most people who have never been to Floriduh, cannot believe the shit that happens there. ONLY when you actually GO THERE, do you realise that Floriduh Man/Woman is REAL.
#BasedTucker is Based
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Even by Tucker’s standards, his opening monologue there was stupendous.
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Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain is here to rescue us from Monday drudgery with the usual assortment of interesting stuff. We start with a great video by Joker from Better Bachelor about one of those dating horror stories that you wouldn’t believe if it were fictional:
Ryan Long examines one of the great quandaries of our time?
It’s kind of a false postulate, though. NOTHING AND NO ONE, INCLUDING GOD ALMIGHTY, can beat a woman’s ability to nag.
Prager U may well be packed full of Neo-Palestinians, but they do have great talent making videos for them – such as the most excellent Dr. Victor Davis Hanson:
Food Theory explains how the ubiquitous (and completely inverted) “USDA/FDA food pyramid” is actually a great way to control you, through your food:
The Babylon Bee continues to report the news long before it ever happens:
I’ve seen one guy that I know, from Africa, of all places, using the “They/Them” pronoun in his LinkedIn bio. I have absolutely no idea why. My understanding was that sub-Saharan Africa was too poor and problematic to worry about stupid woke shit. Evidently, I was wrong.
Then again, that guy is living in a Western country now, so maybe he’s been corrupted by the Pharisatanists that rule those countries.
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice points out that, if you see racism everywhere, especially in America, you’re basically nuts:
Bill Whittle and his friend Alfonzo Rachel have some excellent advice about the value of mentorship:
A mentor can indeed make a huge difference in one’s ability to succeed in all walks of life, but especially in the professional world. If nothing else, a good mentor can stop you from making some really stupid decisions later, and – take it from someone whose entire life is one long series of dumb decisions – that makes a VERY big difference.
China Uncensored is back with a new episode of everyone’s favourite political soap opera, General Hostility:
I’m not entirely convinced that Xi Jinping is really all that threatened at the moment – he has an extremely strong hold on power and I don’t imagine that he will be going anywhere anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean that his particular brand of leadership is universally appreciated – it isn’t. We’ll see what happens, but interesting times lie ahead, I’m sure.
America Uncovered looks at the way in which Pfizer covered up the not-vaxx tests:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance notes that you don’t need to go on holiday to Haiti anymore – that shithole country is being built right in your own backyard, more or less:
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Righteous Rantery
Paul Ramsey notes the obvious about Canuckistan:
PJW notes the sheer size of the gap between (((media)))))))))))) narrative and reality in Canuckistan:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey dissects the notion that electron microscopy
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan is not impressed by Soros the Sith Lord’s attempts to demonise China:
The CCP are unquestionably anti-Western, anti-democratic, racist, despotic, and deeply messed up.
And yet, in spite of ALL of that, they are STILL significantly more sensible and restrained than the Pharisatanical globohomo death cult that is the Western neo-liberal “rules-based world order”.
Warriors of Faith
The Dizzle links to a beautiful and quite inspirational story about a woman who fell in love with a Muslim, and eventually realised that she made a HUGE mistake – and gave her heart back to Jesus Christ, where she found real happiness again:
The best part? She became a Christian apologist, calling herself Christian Princess.
Now, that’s probably more than a little presumptuous, not least because Christian Prince himself is probably THE most effective anti-Abdoolist that I’ve ever seen. She certainly doesn’t have his command of Arabic, or the Izzlamic “scriptures”. And she doesn’t have his sense of humour – which can be pretty savage when you hear him tearing apart Abdools live on air.
But, her faith seems quite genuine and strong, and she clearly has a passion for converting Muslimahs back to the True Faith. Good luck to her, is all I can say.
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his good friend Al-Fadi continue their demolition job on the very shaky foundations of the Great Heresy – they’ve wiped out the book, they’ve crushed the man, and now they’re taking a wrecking ball to the place:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and The Dizzle dissect the ongoing implosion of the dawahgandists, who are getting more silly and desperate by the day in their attempts to stop the “avalanche of apostasy”:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined explains a key dilemma concerning Christian theology in simple terms:
This is similar to that old one about whether God can create a rock too heavy for Him to lift it – that is a false dilemma. God cannot do the impossible, since He defines what is possible in the first place, as a perfect and complete Being.
Christians, particularly the really intelligent ones, should always strive to remember that philosophy is great fun, and a great way to break your brain against seemingly unsolvable puzzles. It is also a great way to confuse yourself into thinking that you are more clever than you really are.
The Greeks of St. Paul’s time rejected Christianity because they thought it was absurdly, stupidly simplistic. The very idea of a God-man dying on a Cross, and then rising from the dead, seemed quite childishly dumb to them. Yet St. Paul was able to defeat them using their own philosophy against them, simply by pointing out core truths.
Therefore, do not let a love of delightful logical puzzles distract you from the core Truth of God – else you will pay a great and terrible price.
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp decides to indulge his conspiracy nut side a bit, while somewhat sauced – though not much more than is usual for him:
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Another video from Joker from Better Bachelor, this time about dating down and why it’s a REALLY dumb idea for men:
He’s right. You have to recognise your own value in any market – and be brutally honest about yourself when you do recognise this. Then, go after what you’re worth – not below it, no matter how tempting that might be.
Burn Hollyweird to the Ground
The mentaltainment news this week has been all about The Lhurrd of the Rangs – that was a good poast, if I do say so myself – and how the fans are outraged by the attempts by Bad Reboot dorks to create a WE WUZ ALVES ‘N’ SHIET!!! take on Middle-Earth. Midnight’s Edge breaks it down for us:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock is quite overjoyed at the spectacular failure of ViacomCBS, or whatever the hell they’re called these days, in light of their continued desecration of STAR TREK canon:
Gary from Nerdrotic has made his own Calexit, and he seems much happier for it:
The Drinker drunkenly dunks all over the latest Jurassic World film – wait, there’s ANOTHER ONE?!?!?!:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week might not actually count as such, since it’s about *snorts* psychology, but we’ll roll with it for now:
Self-care is a very trendy buzzword in the self-help world. What does it mean?
Self-care can be defined as prioritizing your emotional, physical, spiritual needs over those of others (partner, kids, family, work). In intimate long-term relationships, there is no self without the other. Or as legendary family therapist Carl Whitaker wrote: “There are no individuals in the world, only fragments of families.”
Self-care is hard enough as it is when you’re single, but when you’re in a relationship, it’s even more complicated because you’re part of a system. You are (inter)dependent on your partner in most areas of your life, including self-care. In short, there is no self-care without the other’s involvement.
Yet again, science – or in this case, psychology, which isn’t science, really – confirms what the Bible has told us for 3,500 years.
Your long read of the week is by Daniel Horowitz about the extreme lie of “asymptomatic spread” of the Coof:
Truth be told, we are seeing the same perfidy regarding the efficacy of mask-wearing and school closures. Both policies are still being promoted with religious fervor despite a lack of evidence that they slow the spread one iota. Despite an uninterrupted stream of data and research both before and during the epidemic discounting these archaic views, Western governments are dogmatically reverting to the superstitious, accusatory, and panicked responses of the Dark Ages during the Black Plague.
“In summary, the detection rate of asymptomatic positive cases in the post-lockdown Wuhan was very low (0.303/10,000), and there was no evidence that the identified asymptomatic positive cases were infectious,” concluded the Chinese study. “These findings enabled decision makers to adjust prevention and control strategies in the post-lockdown period.”
In other words, following the data and the scientific research after eight months of torture has landed us in the same position we started this year – quarantining the healthy is counterproductive and achieves nothing in stopping the spread of a respiratory virus. The Chinese government learned to move on from authoritarian lockdowns of healthy individuals. The Western world, on the other hand, is still stuck on stupid, as the Chinese laugh all the way to the bank.
A lot of people thoroughly deserve beheading after what they did during the Coof Scamdemic – starting with significant portions of the CCP leadership, and continuing with most of the Deep State Swamp that did so much to destroy people’s freedoms over a disease that was no worse than a really bad flu.
Linkage is good for you – I’ll deal with the links tomorrow:
- James Pinkerton eulogises the late, great, dearly missed P. J. O’Rourke, whose greatest hits were comedic masterpieces never topped before or since;
- Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan asks, rhetorically, whether the Neo-Tsar has won the first major exchange in Ukraine – he definitely has, as the sudden lightning move into the LPR and DPR shows;
- The great Dr. Ron Paul points out, correctly, that the Ukraine crisis is entirely a Western creation, and a damned foolish one, at that;
- Paul Robinson notes that the Neo-Tsar has been warning the Western powers for damned near 20 YEARS about the failures of the neo-liberal world order, but they didn’t listen to him;
- Dan Wootton may be a homo, but at least he understands what Vladimir Poutine over in Canuckistan does not – without truckers, the economy grinds to a halt, and demonising them is really, REALLY stupid;
- So it turns out that mandating the not-vaxxes in Austria has no effect whatsoever on actual uptake – ain’t that a hoot?;
- China’s population is unquestionably in decline, contrary to what Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Terrible and Malevolent thinks, and it WILL be a problem for the Chinks;
- Gordon Chang is almost surely a tool of the neo-liberal Establishment, but his article on the questionable support that Xi Jinping enjoys within the CCP is an interesting one nonetheless;
- That being said, the Chinks are working hard to develop their own twin-engined (i.e. non-stupid) carrier-based lightweight fighter to rival the F-35 and supplement their own carrier fleet;
- A bunch of Malaysians are really pissed at the fact that one of their own (female) Izzlamist ministers simply quoted from their own “holy” books about what their “prophet”, Mo’Lester, said on the subject of wife-beating;
- If you’re interested in a tech job, apparently a lot of high-tech firms are getting quite desperate to hire good talent;
- This article about the vast, yawning chasm between Boomer and Millennial understandings of the housing market deserves its own post, to be honest;
- Want a good way to spot a false preacher? If he’s surrounded by platinum-blonde pneumatic women who look like cheap whores, HE’S PROBABLY A FALSE PREACHER;
- A woman who dumped a dude because he bought her a Yankee Candle (?) for Valentine’s Day, almost certainly inadvertently saved him from making a huge mistake;
- Another woman is deluded enough to think that her ridiculous spending on ass-surgery scares off men – no, it’s because she looks like the wrong end of a dog;
- And speaking of train-smash women, here’s everyone’s (least) favourite loudmouthed train-smash woman to remind us all of the best (worst?) of the breed;
- Unfortunately, just because a woman is ugly, doesn’t mean she isn’t crazy – as Ioan Gruffudd‘s extremely ugly and messy divorce with his increasingly deranged ex-wife proves;
- The masculinity crisis is getting so bad that even female philosophers can stop creating and compounding problems long enough to point it out and discuss it more-or-less rationally;
- UFC welterweight Khamzat Chimaev reckons that he has what it takes to maul Israel Adesanya – maybe he does, I wouldn’t bet against the Dagestanis, but a 15lb weight difference is not a trivial thing in MMA;
- Blockchain technology is rapidly catching up to the payment speeds and scalability advantages offered by the big processing networks – MasterCard, VISA, AMEX, etc. – and it’s only a matter of time before they get there;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- The Canadian Freedom Truckers are proving the sheer fragility of the global supply chain – and now of the financial system as well, because they are using crypto networks to get around Poutine’s efforts to suppress them;
- Is anyone in the least bit surprised that Dr. Phil isn’t actually a very nice guy behind the scenes? Just like Ellen and Oprah?;
- The Babylon Bee continues to report the news long before it ever happens, this time about a bet made by Fake President Greenscreen McNappyFace on the Bengals (does anyone have the first clue what that means?);
- Turns out that being a generalist, rather than a specialist, is actually a good way to be a master of many disciplines, not just one or two;
- How, exactly, does a man commit a rape in business class in flight? And how is it that we don’t simply throw rapists out the windows of moving aircraft at altitude if they get caught in flagrante delicto?;
- If you spare the rod and spoil the child, you hate your kid – the Bible was absolutely right about this, as about everything else, so kick the kid out if she starts abusing you in your own home;
- If you find it difficult to muster the same energy and enthusiasm for life as you get older, just take some inspiration from Jonathan the Tortoise, who is 190 years old and STILL living large;
- Apparently this article about a TikToker (this is a profession now, supposedly) whose belly changes size over the week, was written by a dyslexic Indian, so poor is the grammar and grasp of gender pronouns;
- Most people don’t realise that the Russians actually don’t want war – and that includes their generals, who went to church to pray for that;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar continues to talk more sense than the entirety of the Western neo-liberal “leadership” combined:
Granted, this isn’t very difficult, given that those leaders are obsessed with virtue-signalling stupidity, but still, it’s amazing how huge the gap is between Western perceptions of Putin, and the reality of listening to him speak. He is wise, erudite, measured, precise, and ruthlessly analytical. This is NOT a man that you f**k with, because he WILL destroy you the moment you make a mistake.
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is one of history’s great generals, Field Marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenburg:
HALO Nation
Mint Blitz is NOT happy with 343i’s latest updates to HALO MCC and HALO INFINITE, and when a slayergod like him starts bitching, then Nappysoft had better start listening:
And now let’s watch him do what he does best:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Lolapalooza
They just don’t make ’em like Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom anymore.
Pictionary, Pop-Tarts, Pew-Pews
My buddy Kyle Trouble posted a similar meme to his Twatter not too long ago, and the Leftoids absolutely melted down, claiming that he was endorsing rape or some such. What a bunch of lunatics…
Headlines of the week indicate that Snoop Dogg smells every bit as bad as he sounds:
Your “In Vino Veritas” moment of the week:
Your “Sportzball Spot” moment of the week:
Your “Midterm Variant” moment of the week:
Your “Climate MAFF” moment of the week:
Let’s have some more Prime MInister Bieber memes:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Daniel Bell, for taking 6 months off and then squatting – and I’m not making this up – 1080lbs:
From a technical standpoint, it is a matter of some interest to me that guys who can total up monstrous squats, often underperform on deadlifts – and vice versa. This is mildly surprising because the muscle groups engaged by low-bar squats are similar to the ones engaged by conventional deadlifts.
As far as I can tell, the key here is that deadlifts rely on leverage through the hip hinge, and guys with longer arms will typically do better there. I have relatively long arms for someone of my height, so my deadlift is solid (though my back is NOT – I’m getting old, guys), while my squat is nothing great.
My deadlifts these days top out at 210Kg (near-as-dammit 463lbs), but my squats max out at 145Kg (319.7lbs). (I used to be able to hit 370lbs, once upon a time.) That’s a pretty sizeable difference. But you’ll find this with a lot of the world’s best lifters – Ray Williams, for instance, is a BEAST on squats, but his deadlift is significantly weaker.
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster wonders what lies ahead for “The Notorious” Conor Mcgregor upon his return to the UFC:
Jesus loves knockouts:
Icecapades
Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’
God What an Awful Racket
Hot Totty
And finally, after much slogging, here’s your Instathot to start off the week. This here is Emily Feld, age 20 or so, from the Land Down Under. Like most things from Australia, she is likely to be extremely dangerous to your health, so beware – always remember that EVERYTHING IN AUSTRALIA WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES. And that INCLUDES the sheilas.
Still and all, she does look nice in a bikini.
OK, that’s it, show’s over, back to work.
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The links section is a gold mine this week:
Women give terrible advice to others:
See: Mayalasian minister of the family, who is a woman herself, telling husbands it is proper to beat their wife. REEEEEEEEE’s commence.
See: 39 year old woman telling other women to dump men for not giving them showers of gifts for valentine’s day. It’s because of some gamma in her past:
“”When I was younger I was dating a guy who bought a card that was the same size as me,” she explained.
“The whole room was filled with red balloons and flowers.
“Inside the giant card was a ticket to Tunisia for a week. It was a huge surprise and was amazing. I really appreciated the effort.“
See: 100k on bum injections. She’s ugly and can’t get men to date her. And the advice is also terrible:
“her quest to have the world’s biggest bum began in a gym – but then she realised she could ‘pump her a‘ with surgery instead.
She added: “I started working out at the gym, and then I had an idea to pump my a. And then my journey started from there.
“Bigger is always better.”
See: Katie Price can’t get her price. She’s old and getting beat by younger women, so she’s cutting her OnlySimps cost by 50%. To market that and gt back in the news…time for an eyebrow lift and more horrible.
See TOP FEMALE PHILOSPHER Nina Price, who has written a book called ‘What do Men What?” which is somehow longer then 2 pages and works from this false first premise:
“There’s another old idea that says feminists hate men. Neither is true. What is true is that life for the average man is confusing.”
What is with the TransNuts showing off a tummy flex on TikTok? How does this rate an article by anyone?!
+1 point for the YaBoiSocrates Meme. And the Venus Fly Trap + Warf Meme.